Prints: works from the Symbolica archive, at the size their masters carry
Most of these pictures were not made to live in books. They were laboratory walls, lodge floors, plates folded into a folio to be opened out and stood over. Each is shown here at the size its own master allows, and no larger.
- The Ancient of the AncientsJ. Augustus Knapp, colour plate, 1928The largest file Internet Archive, leaf 36 serves is 5834 by 9805 pixels, which is 830 mm on the long edge at 300 ppi. Nothing is enlarged to reach a size.
- Melencolia IAlbrecht Dürer, 1514Engraving. The largest file The Metropolitan Museum of Art serves is 2820 by 3561 pixels, which is 301 mm on the long edge at 300 ppi. Nothing is enlarged to reach a size.
- Grand Rosicrucian Alchemical FormulaUncredited, after the Musaeum Hermeticum, colour plate, 1928The largest file Internet Archive, leaf 45 serves is 9446 by 7767 pixels, which is 800 mm on the long edge at 300 ppi. Nothing is enlarged to reach a size.
- The Sleep of Reason Produces MonstersGoya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes), 1799Etching, aquatint. The largest file The Metropolitan Museum of Art serves is 2689 by 3665 pixels, which is 310 mm on the long edge at 300 ppi. Nothing is enlarged to reach a size.
- The Four HorsemenAlbrecht Dürer, 1498Woodcut. The largest file The Metropolitan Museum of Art serves is 2798 by 3801 pixels, which is 322 mm on the long edge at 300 ppi. Nothing is enlarged to reach a size.
- Oedipus and the SphinxGustave Moreau, 1864Oil on canvas. The largest file The Metropolitan Museum of Art serves is 2072 by 4000 pixels, which is 339 mm on the long edge at 300 ppi. Nothing is enlarged to reach a size.
- God Judging AdamWilliam Blake, ca. 1795Color relief etching finished with pen and ink and watercolor. The largest file The Metropolitan Museum of Art serves is 4000 by 3268 pixels, which is 339 mm on the long edge at 300 ppi. Nothing is enlarged to reach a size.
- The Peacock in the FlaskEdith A. Ibbs, after Splendor Solis, 1900 to 1909Watercolour. The largest file Wellcome Collection serves is 1831 by 3818 pixels, which is 323 mm on the long edge at 300 ppi. Nothing is enlarged to reach a size.
- The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from ParadiseGiovanni di Paolo, 1445Tempera and gold on wood. The largest file The Metropolitan Museum of Art serves is 4000 by 3560 pixels, which is 339 mm on the long edge at 300 ppi. Nothing is enlarged to reach a size.
- The Sun and the Moon over the King and the QueenEdith A. Ibbs, after Salomon Trismosin, Splendor Solis, 1900 to 1909Watercolour. The largest file Wellcome Collection serves is 2250 by 3158 pixels, which is 267 mm on the long edge at 300 ppi. Nothing is enlarged to reach a size.
Prints are coming.
Archival paper, each at the size its own master honestly carries. Nothing enlarged to reach a size.
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The sizes on this wall are true to one another, so a work photographed at nine thousand pixels stands beside one photographed at two thousand and the difference is visible. Every master size was measured from the holding institution's own file on 2026-09-06, not taken from a catalogue claim. Nothing is enlarged, and where a scan will not carry a large print the archive says so and offers the size it will carry.